>>151646463That bit with the guy shooting the skeletons looked like ass but the sword fight looked pretty okay. Hopefully that's in the PV because they got it done quickly rather than because it's an animation highlight.

>>151646798>Look whats happening to the monogatari franchiseThat's mainly due to Shaft's bullshit and repeated tricks more than anything. If it had come out during it's popularity hike when it was supposed to, I think it could have done better

>>151646798>Look whats happening to the monogatari franchise.Its still doing well? I mean I don;t think you're deluded enough to believe a series can sustain a high average in sales for 7 years right? The fact that its still selling above 20k per new entry is a feat within itself. Could Kizu have done gangbuster if it was released on time? Yes, but its still ranking up cash flow and that's all that matters even if all that's left of the fanbase are the hardcore ones.

>Nasu and Takeuchi gets a position on the Sony Board since they have made them so much money with their company>"Nasu demands X video games to be funded, Takeuchi tries to get Saber branded Sony products made/ Push for a Saber PSVR game"

>>151646395A-1 has made some good/great anime. But the way they produce anime does not make a good fit for action anime (see: Nanatsu no Taizai) which consists of a good team with good planning that can handle the intensive animation that action requires.

>>151650129They managed to pull it off for shows like Birdy Decode and SAO. The studio has demonstrated the ability to make the occasional show with okay scheduling and can pull the right personnel to bring good production values. Well, at the very least we know that Apocrypha will have two good animators attached to the project so that's something. We'll see how it goes later in the year.

>>151650185Saekano, Shinsekai Yori, Shigatsu, etc were all nicely produced anime. (Before you greentext me like an idiot yeah SSY had dips but the last arc was at its best.) As you've noticed they can do good anime with a competent staff and anime that isn't action-based.

>>151650508>Had major QUALITY in the second seasonNot really QUALITY but rather the director allowing the young web gen animators to go wild and push the boundaries of what the average viewer might find acceptable. Only Tomoyuki Niho's works were really controversial, but the rest like Shingo Yamashita and Kenichi Kutsuna did good.

And like it or not, SAO did have a decent amount of good action animation in both seasons due to their respective main action animators.

>>151651424If my memory don't fail me he hated that the people call him a monster when he was alive, but his master use a command spell to force the awakening of his vamp blood and become a monster, in the end is crucified and dies with the sun like a monster>>151652224That graph is old>>151652395Ufo is now doing HF movie, Silver link Kaleid movie, Shaft extra TV and A-1 Apo

>>151651855Depends on what you meant by underperform. I'm sure no one actually expects those anime to sell as much as Fate Zero or UBW anime by ufotable. They are made to sell more merchandise for Jeanne as F/A poster girl and Nero as F/Extra poster girl.

>>151652604Fate /stay night and Fate/zero are canon, just read FSN visual novel and watch FZ anime, then finish on high note with Carnival Phantasm anime. Don't bother with the cash-grab spin-offs that are coming out, they are all shitty.

>>151652916More like a retelling. Nasu posted a "sequel" of Extella on his blog shortly after it came out. He basically spoiled the plot of the anime. It's going to be largely the same but Hakuno is MC(With Nero) whereas Hakunon is a tragic character(With Mumei/Emiya) that defeats Leo and takes his place.

Altrum(Atomic Gatorade if you remember him from UBW) is Tamamo's master and after defeating him he saves her using a CS. Altrum replaces the day that would have changed depending on if you picked Rani or Rin.

>>151652988But that >>151648813 never happened in Extra. That's the last arena in the game, and the purple stuff means she's ded already.>>151653119The picture would make sense if she took Twice's place. But that means they've spoiled the entire plot in the first fucking PV.

>>151655324>100% all agesRealise one thing. Since HA they actually released only Mahoyo which was all age for reason. Except that there wasn't anything else beside Fate spin-offs. So is too soon to say that. Wait for decision about Tsukihime Remake.

>>151656087Stay Night VN, then Hollow Ataraxia or Zero. Don't really remember off the top of my head. >>151656130I Google translated and read the whole journal in regards to him and Tamamo, seems like she falls in love with Hakuno, so she starts off sad and then finds happiness with him? I'm okay with that.

Friendly reminder:>Accepted way to appreciate Fate on /a/: "Well, Fate is garbage and Nasu is a shit writer but I like poorly implemented mythology, shallow philosophy on heroism, generic waifus and autistic powerlevel arguments.">Go back to fucking Leddit: "Fate is unironically good."

>>151656432>I like smartly implemented mythological revisionism, articulate philosophy on altruism and the nature of humankind, some of the best female characters to grace VNs, and the well constructed rock-paper-scissors esque power system.

>>151656748>I like a very poor take on mythology like reads something a teenager that spent an afternoon on Wikipedia would write, philosophy on heroism so dumb that it would make a capeshit writer blush, dime-a-dozen tried-and-true female characters you could find in any random VN/LN and a power-level that reads as if it was out of a fucking videogame rather than something organic and well-designed that feels real and not contrived.

>>151656995>I am so unacquainted with philosophy that I couldn't appreciate Fate's decidedly sympathetic take on characters like Medea and Herc, didn't understand the philosophy because I haven't read entry level shit from the Greeks, claim the writing reads like something from a teenager because I'm an EOP who read a translation by a literal teenager, fail to grasp the thematic progression and coherency behind characters like Tohsaka Rin, and couldn't come up with a real argument against the power system so I'll just say it "feels contrived".You're gonna have to try harder than that

>>151657347That pic is inaccurate. Goetia spent 3000 years amassing that energy and he only wanted to use it to go back to Earth's genesis and remake it in his image. Solomon doesn't even fight Goetia he just uses one of his NPs and it render Goetia practically powerless.

>>151657321>I'm so unacquainted why philosophy I appreciate Nasu's Wikipedia-tier writing while I haven't read a single piece of real literary take on the characters>I literally don't know who entry-level philosophers like Heidegger or Kant are>I unironically believe Nasu's allegories are a good way of writing sex-scenes>Tohsaka Rin isn't a run-of-the-mill tsundere>a power-system that uses video-game style grids and grades isn't contrived

>>151659018The prologue is pretty weak and Fuyuki is just okay.This is accepted by everyone that played itOrleans is actually goodRome sucks AssOkeanos is goodLondon is okay as the last few chapters are interestingAmerica was really goodCamelot was arguably the bestBabylonia is just as good as Camelot

>>151662546>>151662580Well if that's true I hope they squeeze them out relatively quickly. OVAs tend to take their time between releases and it would be pretty tedious to have to wait until 2019 for them to finish. Then again they only announced the first one in November so they seem to want it done ASAP.

Too bad Apocrypha is just a really fucking shitty retelling of Stay Night. Sieg is literally Shirou being a faggot about being a homunculus with a borrowed personality from Siegfried who wants to be a hero of justice. Then he falls in love with Jeanne and they pull some Avalon bullshit and are reunited in the afterlife after Jeanne gives up on God so she can ride the dragon dick.

>>151664121I've only read the first volume as it's the only part translated but she only has one significant scene and it lasts for what I can only image weren't even two pages. I don't dislike Apo but it is in fact more of the same, FSF is similar but it does interesting things. El-Melloi is barely Fate, they could have called it "Magi" and said it takes place in the same universe as Fate.

>>151663124death for good.the body was probably pulled from the ground with a spoon and thrown into a Jam jar, and her "Conscience" was literally burnt into nothing, fate sure hasn't chill over cute poor girls.also she was meant to be bullied.>>151652991

>>151665901Not quite gruff and raspy enough. It has to be like the voice of a haggard, chainsmoking blacksmith, bouncing around saying shit like "Kyaa! Am I kawaii, Sieg-kun?">>151665855That might work. I think Nakata would be a better fit though, if Hellsing Ultimate proved anything he's perfect for playing cute little "girls".

>>151657486What you're saying is also inaccurate. He didn't really take 3000 years. Goetia was outside time and space in Solomon's temple, he incinerated 3000 years worth of human history through Solomon's powers and his pillars (which were all Solomon's creations) to do his plan, but in doing so he was transforming himself into God. The 'universe bends to his will' was even in his fucking profile.

So yes, Gaia is weaker. Arc gets power from the planet, Beasts from humans. It's even FLAT OUT stated no force would ever stop Goetia in this stage except Solomon who was God's agent/vessel. And does so by returning his power and gifts to God. They do fight. Goetia beats him up and Solomon shrugs it off.

>>151669955The guy summoned Archer Herk but because he said he wouldn't harm children the master used grail mud and some kind of magic to turn him into Avenger/Archer Alcides(Herk's human name). He has a slightly smaller build apparently. The new guy hates gods and doesn't care so much about children and traded his God Hand for 12 NPs.

>>151669955Archer Herk is strong enough to badmouthing Gil and asking him to use EA if he wants win. Literally reverse Berserk vs Gil fight in UBW. Shame he probably lose ub the end because of Gil plot armor and True Rider